Holiday entitlement for part time workers (both working different days)

katy123

If someone works part time 3 days a week, the statutory holiday pay is 17 days (includes bank holiday) per year. For 2021, there are 8 bank holidays and if the company has 2 part time employees:

1.       Employee A – works Tue to Thursday

2.       Employee B – works Mon to Wed

If I assume all bank holidays fall on the Mon, am I right in thinking that employee A would get the full 17 days off and employee B would only get 9 days off only because on the 8x Mondays, bank holiday falls on that supposed working day.

Savvy_Sue

Next year only 5 BHs are on Mondays: we have Good Friday, 2 jubilee holidays on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd June, and the Boxing Day replacement on other days.

But you need to look at it as a choice thing. The person working Mondays must either take a day's leave on a BH Monday OR work a day to make up for it, but they have exactly the same amount of leave. The person not working Mondays has slightly more choice about which days to book leave. That's all.

warby68

No, they both get 17 days off but B has fewer to choose for themselves as more Bank Holidays fall on their working days. Yes you have to use your non bank holiday portion of holidays if there are more Bank Holidays to cover than your pro-rata allocation.

I was very lucky when I first went part time. My then employer gave part timers the full Bank Holiday entitlement. Even as a grateful recipient I thought that was unfairly generous. After a merger it changed.

74jax

katy123 said:

If someone works part time 3 days a week, the statutory holiday pay is 17 days (includes bank holiday) per year. For 2021, there are 8 bank holidays and if the company has 2 part time employees:

1.       Employee A – works Tue to Thursday

2.       Employee B – works Mon to Wed

If I assume all bank holidays fall on the Mon, am I right in thinking that employee A would get the full 17 days off and employee B would only get 9 days off only because on the 8x Mondays, bank holiday falls on that supposed working day.

No they both get 17 days. 

The company will tell full time employees when to use some holidays (ie Bank Holidays) and the same for part time staff. If you don't work on a day the company want to close, you obviously don't use a holiday.